Doctor Who Sparked the Mmr Debate Faces Misconduct Charge

Evening Standard - London › June 12, 2006

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THE doctor whose research sparked the international scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine is to be charged with serious professional misconduct.

Andrew Wakefield is to be ordered in front of the General Medical Council after publishing a paper in The Lancet in 1998 that suggested a link between the jab and autism as well as Crohn's, a bowe l disease.

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Doctor Who Sparked the Mmr Debate Faces Misconduct Charge

A sheet of preliminary charges accuses him of putting out "inadequately founded" research, of failing to obtain ethical committee approval, obtaining funding "improperly" and of subject...

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